NGC 7682
NGC 7682
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
239 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 239 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7682 as it looked roughly 239 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 7679Lenticular910,000 ly
apartNGC 7684Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 7591Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7687Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1507Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7685Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7684Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 7591Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7687Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1507Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7685Spiral24 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).